Sentry Release GitHub Action

NOTE: Currently only available for Linux runners. See this issue for more details.

Automatically create a Sentry release in a workflow.

A release is a version of your code that can be deployed to an environment. When you give Sentry information about your releases, you unlock a number of new features:

• Determine the issues and regressions introduced in a new release
• Predict which commit caused an issue and who is likely responsible
• Resolve issues by including the issue number in your commit message
• Receive email notifications when your code gets deployed

Additionally, releases are used for applying source maps to minified JavaScript to view original, untransformed source code. You can learn more about releases in the releases documentation.

Prerequisites

Create a Sentry Internal Integration

NOTE: You have to be an admin in your Sentry org to create this.

For this action to communicate securely with Sentry, you'll need to create a new internal integration. In Sentry, navigate to: Settings > Developer Settings > Custom Integrations > Create New Integration > Internal Integration.

Give your new integration a name (for example, "GitHub Action Release Integration”) and specify the necessary permissions. In this case, we need Admin access for “Release” and Read access for “Organization”.

Click “Save” at the bottom of the page, then go back into your newly created integration and click "New Token". Grab this newly generated token and use it as your SENTRY_AUTH_TOKEN. We recommend you store this as an encrypted secret.

Usage

Adding the following to your workflow will create a new Sentry release and tell Sentry that you are deploying to the production environment.

- uses: actions/checkout@v3
  with:
    fetch-depth: 0

- name: Create Sentry release
  uses: getsentry/action-release@v1
  env:
    SENTRY_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.SENTRY_AUTH_TOKEN }}
    SENTRY_ORG: ${{ secrets.SENTRY_ORG }}
    SENTRY_PROJECT: ${{ secrets.SENTRY_PROJECT }}
    # SENTRY_URL: https://sentry.io/
  with:
    environment: production

Inputs

Environment Variables

name	description	default
SENTRY_AUTH_TOKEN	[Required] Authentication token for Sentry. See installation.	-
SENTRY_ORG	[Required] The slug of the organization name in Sentry.	-
SENTRY_PROJECT	The slug of the project name in Sentry. One of SENTRY_PROJECT or projects is required.	-
SENTRY_URL	The URL used to connect to Sentry. (Only required for Self-Hosted Sentry)	https://sentry.io/

Parameters

name	description	default
environment	Set the environment for this release. E.g. "production" or "staging". Omit to skip adding deploy to release.	-
finalize	When false, omit marking the release as finalized and released.	true
ignore_missing	When the flag is set and the previous release commit was not found in the repository, will create a release with the default commits count instead of failing the command.	false
ignore_empty	When the flag is set, command will not fail and just exit silently if no new commits for a given release have been found.	false
sourcemaps	Space-separated list of paths to JavaScript sourcemaps. Omit to skip uploading sourcemaps.	-
dist	Unique identifier for the distribution, used to further segment your release. Usually your build number.	-
started_at	Unix timestamp of the release start date. Omit for current time.	-
version	Identifier that uniquely identifies the releases. Note: the refs/tags/ prefix is automatically stripped when version is github.ref.	${{ github.sha }}
version_prefix	Value prepended to auto-generated version. For example "v".	-
set_commits	Specify whether to set commits for the release. Either "auto" or "skip".	"auto"
projects	Space-separated list of paths of projects. When omitted, falls back to the environment variable SENTRY_PROJECT to determine the project.	-
url_prefix	Adds a prefix to source map urls after stripping them.	-
strip_common_prefix	Will remove a common prefix from uploaded filenames. Useful for removing a path that is build-machine-specific.	false
working_directory	Directory to collect sentry release information from. Useful when collecting information from a non-standard checkout directory.	-

Examples

• Create a new Sentry release for the production environment and upload JavaScript source maps from the ./lib directory.

  - uses: getsentry/action-release@v1
    with:
      environment: 'production'
      sourcemaps: './lib'

• Create a new Sentry release for the production environment of your project at version v1.0.1.

  - uses: getsentry/action-release@v1
    with:
      environment: 'production'
      version: 'v1.0.1'

• Create a new Sentry release for Self-Hosted Sentry

  - uses: getsentry/action-release@v1
    env:
      SENTRY_URL: https://sentry.example.com/

Releases

The build.yml workflow will build a Docker image every time a pull request merges to master and upload it to the GitHub registry, thus, effectively being live for everyone even if we do not bump the version.

NOTE: Unfortunately, we only use the latest tag for the Docker image, thus, making use of a version with the action innefective (e.g. v1 vs v1.3.0). See #129 on how to fix this.

NOTE: Right now, our Docker image publishing is decoupled from tag creation in the repository. We should only publish a specific Docker tag when we create a tag (you can make GitHub workflows listen to this). See #102 for details. Once this is fixed merges to master will not make the Docker image live and the following paragraph will be legit.

When you are ready to make a release, open a new release checklist issue and follow the steps in there.

The Docker build is multi-staged in order to make the final image used by the action as small as possible to reduce network transfer (use docker images to see the sizes of the images).

End to end testing on GitHub's CI

The first job in test.yml has instructions on how to tweak a job in order to execute your changes as part of the PR.

NOTE: Contributors will need to create an internal integration in their Sentry org and need to be an admin. See Prerequisites section above.

Members of this repo will not have to set anything up since the integration is already set-up. Just open the PR and you will see a release created for your PR.

Development

If your change impacts the options used for the action, you need to update the README.md with the new options.

Unit tests

You can run the unit tests with yarn test.

Contributing

See the Contributing Guide.

License

See the License File.

Troubleshooting

Suggestions and issues can be posted on the repository's issues page.

• Forgetting to include the required environment variables (SENTRY_AUTH_TOKEN, SENTRY_ORG, and SENTRY_PROJECT), yields an error that looks like:

  Environment variable SENTRY_ORG is missing an organization slug
  

• Building and running this action locally on an unsupported environment yields an error that looks like:

  Syntax error: end of file unexpected (expecting ")")
  

• When adding the action, make sure to first checkout your repo with actions/checkout@v3. Otherwise it could fail at the propose-version step with the message:

  error: Could not automatically determine release name
  

• In actions/checkout@v3 the default fetch depth is 1. If you're getting the error message:

  error: Could not find the SHA of the previous release in the git history. Increase your git clone depth.
  

  you can fetch all history for all branches and tags by setting the fetch-depth to zero like so:

  - uses: actions/checkout@v3
    with:
      fetch-depth: 0